Negotiations continued in Washington Wednesday on a draft Inter-American Declaration of Rights of Indigenous Peoples , an initiative of the Organization of American States . Progress towards completion of the declaration, the first...

The Federal Communications Commission has said that it is overhauling the system it uses to process complaints about indecency on the public airwaves . The FCC has hired additional staff to review complaints and is revising...

Menatep , the majority shareholder of Russian oil company Yukos , has sued the Russian government for over $28 billion, saying the government's sale of Yukos' production arm Yugansk was illegal. The...

In person on national television Wednesday UK Prime Minister Tony Blair apologized to members of the Conlon and Maguire families who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced for the 1974 IRA bombings of British pubs in Guildford [BBC...

The US Army announced Tuesday that Corporal Dustin Berg, a soldier in the Indiana National Guard awarded the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Iraq, has been charged in the murder of an Iraqi civilian....

A federal immigration judge Tuesday ordered the deportation from the United States of a Palestinian fund raiser for an Islamic charity alleged to have supported Hamas. Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan, who was found to have been living in the US without...

A spokesman for the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq said Wednesday that the announcement of final results from last month's Iraqi elections will be delayed so that the Commission can recount votes from...

Allen Raymond, former president of Republican consulting group GOP Marketplace, has received a five month sentence for his role in a plot to jam Democratic phone lines in New Hampshire during the 2002 election. Raymond pleaded guilty in June...

Same-sex marriage bans made headway in several state legislatures Tuesday. The Alabama Senate voted unanimously in favor of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages after the House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an identical proposal last week. One chamber...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Wednesday, Feb. 9.The US Senate convenes today at 9:30 AM ET, and it continues debate of S. 5 , the Class...